Running Nintendo DS homebrew - Simon van de Berg

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Sprites Out - A lights out style game with Nintendo sprites by chadkeck. Stone Age – A port/remake puzzle game of the great DOS game Stone Age written by hdxs. SylphAMP - A winamp output interface allowing streaming. Get the winamp plugin from ficedula's site. SylphIRC - An IRC client for the DS. Tales of Dagur - A RPG made by LiraNuna that won the NeoFlash spring competition. Temby! Towers DS - A clone of Yahoo! Towers for the DS. Touch Touch Revolution - A DDR game that was just begging to come out for DS. Early alpha release, all hardcoded for now. Wolf3D Demo - A port of Wolfenstein to the DS, still in development.
Part 9: I'm through with all this general gibberish, I own a card so now what? Get going with DS homebrew! Okay so you have read and understood all general homebrew related parts and have purchased yourself a DS product (set). Now you want to get going with your happy homebrewing experience. Well, first of all read your product's manual (if it came with any). Though the general setup of every card is the same, many cards have small differences or “tweaks” which may give you problems (an example being the slot-2 SuperCard solutions which have messed up the file extention scheme, see part 5 for details on the extensions). After that, and possibly reading around in forums you should know all general problems (differences from the norm or other quirks) users are experiencing with the product you have bought. First of all it is important to know what kind of homebrew you are going to try and run on your DS (see part 5 for details); If it is just plain .nds homebrew (no FATlib/DLDI/SRAM/whatever) then you can do just as you always do (with your card). For example, with the M3DS simply (slot-1) you just place the .nds file on your microSD card and start your system, select the .nds file from the menu and run it like any other game. The SuperCard slot-2 series, with their changed extension scheme, you will have to add nds_loader (again see part 5 for details) to the file and then put it on the (micro/mini)SD card. When you find it is SRAM homebrew, you will have to find out if your hardware supports SRAM homebrew (meaning it HAS to be a slot-2 device) or find a way around this problem (for example using a retail GBA card's SRAM). SRAM homebrew (unless precompiled in .ds.gba format) will probably boot unchanged and you can boot it like normal .nds homebrew (see above). However FATlib homebrew or DLDI homebrew is where the fun begins. These types of homebrew applications or games generally use big files (as else it wouldn't use FAT). I will cover both these 'types' seperatly. FATlib is an old way of producing homebrew so generally it is no longer produced and can only be found in old homebrew. However if it IS FATlib homebrew you will either have to compile it yourself from source when using the proper FATlib for your device (something I will not cover here) or look for a version that works with your card. It is generally well identifiable, and how to run it is well described. This is similar with DLDI homebrew however it is a much more modern and widely used these days. DLDI homebrew, as explained in part 5, is in the .nds (or .ds.gba) format however made DLDI ready. By default no specific FATlib has been loaded into the program, but rather an open space has been left which can be filled by you as you please. The homebrew application, once patched will then be able to read/write from/to whatever device you patched it to be able to read/write from/to. This process is very easy thanks to the scene; 1. You download your homebrew application and select the file you will be
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Page 3 and 4: Introduction Many people have asked
Page 5 and 6: Part 1: The history of DS homebrew
Page 7 and 8: Part 2: Deeper into the passthrough
Page 9 and 10: Part 3: So what passthrough device
Page 11 and 12: This is also a GBA flash cart, but
Page 13 and 14: This FAT lib is an (outdated) way t
Page 15 and 16: The SuperCard-lite (SC-L) This vers
Page 17 and 18: normal DS. It supports NDS homebrew
Page 19 and 20: Something that is very nice of NeoF
Page 21 and 22: DS-Xtreme: thanks to http://www.mod
Page 23 and 24: The Express Card (or any other OEM
Page 25 and 26: Part 7: What hardware to choose (me
Page 27 and 28: Part 8: A list of homebrew So I can
Page 29: IRC DS - An IRC application for the
Page 33 and 34: Part 10: Links Useful places when a
Page 35: Part 12: FAQ Still have questions?

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